The emergency working group of the Ministry of Commerce in Beijing, the originally busy and noisy office has also become deserted, and everyone is working hard during this time, so Liang Yujie only left a few staff on duty, and the others went back to rest. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Liang Yujie was sitting there smiling, listening to the reports of several employees. At present, the situation in all parts of the Central Plains, except for a few areas where traffic is blocked, has basically stabilized.

In order to be able to sell the grain they had hoarded for many years to the Far East, grain merchants from all over the country lined up outside the Far East grain sales points every day. Now they have almost lost their minds, and all they want is to sell all their grain to the Far East, so to speak, the overall situation has been decided.

For more than ten days in a row, Liang Yujie was under great pressure. In the two days when the situation was at its most severe, she didn't close her eyes at all, and always paid attention to the grain storage situation in various places.

To tell the truth, in those days, the Far East's grain stocks in various parts of the Ming Dynasty had already reached below the warning line. Once there is a food shortage, it will inevitably cause a series of negative effects.

And she will inevitably take on this responsibility, because this plan was proposed by her and organized and implemented. So from the implementation of the plan to the successful achievement of the goal, she has experienced a very painful torment in the middle.

Several employees of the Ministry of Commerce were reporting to her on the grain collection in various places, and one of the girls suddenly found that Liang Yujie had fallen asleep sitting there, and she was snoring softly. She hurriedly waved her hand and left lightly with a few employees.

This was also the first battle won by the Far East after it entered the Central Plains, and it was won very beautifully. Through this action, the company purchased a large amount of grain at a low price.

These grains are all hoarded by grain merchants around the country at high prices for many years, Chongzhen drought lasted for nearly ten years, they have relied on reselling grain to earn amazing wealth, but this time it is a heavy loss, or even a loss of money. Therefore, this time, the Far East not only stabilized the chaotic situation in various parts of the Central Plains, but not only did not lose money, but also made a slight surplus.

These are not the most important things, the most important thing is that through this operation, the Far East not only resolved the crisis, but also won the hearts and minds of the people of the Central Plains, leaving a very deep impression on the people of the Central Plains.

In the past, food prices often soared in every year of famine. In the face of the behavior of grain merchants in various places, the Ming court was powerless to resist at all, and could only let the price of grain rise and ignore it.

Because behind those grain merchants, they all relied on the gentry and bureaucrats at all levels of the Ming Dynasty, and the profiteers and bureaucrats in various places colluded with each other to raise grain prices and earn high profits, and they did not care about the lives of the common people.

There has never been such a thing as the Far East Company, which has done everything to ease food prices. Not to mention the mobilization of large quantities of grain and the wanton sale of grain in various places regardless of the cost.

In any case, the Far East's action this time added a lot of points to the hearts of the people of the Central Plains, and anyway, everyone accepted the Republic of China in their hearts, at least this China country stood up when prices soared, and relied on its own strength to keep food prices down.

This time, along with food, there are other production and living materials. A large number of businessmen in various parts of the Central Plains who fanned the flames and stirred up waves in order to make huge profits also paid a heavy price for their greed.

If it can be said that the Far East's grain sales are frenzied regardless of the cost, the cost of all kinds of non-staple foods and daily necessities, and all kinds of commodities produced by relying on advanced modern equipment and modern technology, is outrageously low.

For example, refined salt, the modern salt farms along the coast of the controlled areas of the Far East produce an astronomical amount every year. There are also non-staple food products such as sugar, and the Far East has developed a large number of sugarcane plantations because it occupies Luzon, Nanyang and Indochina Peninsula, and has long formed a huge industrial scale effect.

Countless indigenous people from all over the world get up early and work hard at night, working for more than ten hours a day, relying only on two meals of gruel with clear soup and little water to satisfy their hunger, and the labor cost is completely negligible.

Coupled with the modern and advanced production technology and equipment of various non-staple food enterprises in the Far East, both the output and the cost are not comparable to this era at all.

Like pots and pans, cloth and satin, clothing, shoes and hats and other daily necessities, the cost of which is not comparable to the handicraft workshop of the Ming Dynasty. It turns out that the company has been controlling dumping in Daming, the main reason is that it is afraid of impacting various industries in Daming.

But now, in the face of the fact that businessmen from all over the world are frantically raising the prices of various commodities regardless of the lives of the people, this also makes the Far Eastern Company very angry, so when a large number of Far Eastern commodities enter the Central Plains, it not only instantly quells the crazy prices in various places, but also deals a heavy blow to the arrogance of merchants everywhere.

Fortunately, the company didn't want to do anything wrong, and in addition to continuing to sell grain, it only punished other commodities lightly, and ended selling them after a few days.

After all, this is related to the livelihood of many low-level people in the Central Plains, and if the blow is too hard, it will inevitably collapse the business system of those handicraft workshops in the Central Plains in a short period of time.

Even so, in just a few days, shops everywhere suffered heavy losses. Because the prices of commodities sold in the Far East are too low, people everywhere are frantically rushing to buy and hoard, and the production and living materials in the Central Plains are bound to be depressed for a period of time in the future.

At this point, after the Far East entered the Central Plains, the first crisis it faced was smoothly subsided. Moreover, through this operation, the Far East also left a very good impression on the hearts of the people at the bottom of the Central Plains.

In fact, this is what the Far East values the most, no matter when, the most difficult thing to get is the people's heart, which cannot be bought with more silver.

Of course, it is obviously unrealistic to easily win the hearts and minds of the people of the Central Plains by relying on just a few such actions. This will require the long-term unremitting efforts of the Far East in order to gradually gain the trust and support of all ordinary people.

The situation in the Central Plains is extremely complicated, and Liaodong and other places previously controlled by the Far East cannot be compared with the Central Plains at all. In the past, most of the people in the Far East-controlled areas were desperate and homeless, and they were relatively easy to manage.

Moreover, in Liaodong and other regions, there are almost no traditional local feudal forces and traditional local clan forces, which are like a blank sheet of paper, which can be planned by the Far East Company.

The company has always been strictly militarized, and the entire Far Eastern Company is like a huge military camp, or a concentration camp to put it mildly. No matter who is in such an atmosphere, they will unconsciously restrain themselves.

However, there are no such conditions at all in the Central Plains today, and the grassroots cadres trained in the Far East are very comfortable working in the kind of environment in the Far East-controlled areas, but in the grassroots units in various parts of the Central Plains, I am afraid it will not be so simple.

(To be continued.) )